LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ARANMOBE, co. DONEGAL—Information reached Aranmore about 9 P.M. on the 2nd August that two fishing boats belonging to the place were in difficulties, and as there was a S.E. gale blowing, with a rough sea, the Life-boat La Totitam was...
Category: Services
Friends, Provide Us and Serene
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
Five Men Rescued from a Yacht
AT 1.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station, Mr. J.
Kennedy, was told by the Formby coastguard that a yacht was at anchor one mile north of Southport...
Category: Services
Campania
The Motor Life-boat Morison Watson was launched at mid- day on the 18th October as the owner of the fishing boat Campaina had brought news that his boat, which was riding at anchor in Garlieston Bay, with no one on board, was in danger of...
The kindness of strangers
Kevin Payne dreamed of starting a new life by the Mediterranean. On 2 July 2007, he left Southampton in his 25m converted trawler Abundance, with friend George, Daisy the dog, Fluffy the cat, and everything he owned onboard. Mairéad...
Category: Articles
Endeavour and Amelia
Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1954, the life-boat coxswain reported that the fishing boat Endeavour, lying off Eyemouth, had wirelessed the fishing boat Amelia, which was in the harbour, asking if...
A Dinghy (2)
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
Two boys in a dinghy had been reported missing off Bognor, but they were found by men who put out from Bognor in a motor boat. - Rewards, £14 4s. 6d. (See Bognor, “Services by...
A Steamer (6)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - ABERDEEN, AND NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A steamer had foundered after being in collision, but all her crew, fifty-four in number, were saved by their own boats and rafts and by another vessel. - Rewards : Aberdeen, £6...
A Mirror Class Dinghy
Night search EXMOUTH DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY was informed by HM Coastguard at 0117 on Wednesday, July 28, that a Mirror Class dinghy, with a crew of two, was long overdue. In good visibility and with a gentle north-westerly breeze and...
Widow of a Bowman
THE bowman of the Walmer life-boat, James Rich, collapsed and died in the life-boat when she went out, on the 24th of December 1950, to the help of the Italian motor vessel Santagata, and rescued her crew of thirty-two. An account of the...
Category: Obituaries